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Homicide and mental illness in England<\/h3>\n
Homicide by patients with mental illness is one of the most sensitive subjects in mental health and we recognise how much families, friends and staff are affected by these tragic incidents. We have been commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) to resume the National Confidential Inquiry into Homicide in England, to reflect current public concerns regarding patient care.<\/p>\n
Further information and resources, including information on our study design, frequently asked questions, evidence and guidance, can be found on our\u00a0Homicide and Mental Illness in England<\/a> webpage.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Suicide during transition of care from child and adolescent” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n Overall, this study aims to improve safety for young people during the transition of care from child and adolescent to adult mental health services. It has been commissioned\u00a0by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)<\/a>\u00a0and will report in February 2027.<\/p>\n More information<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Implementing a personalised approach to risk” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n View full illustration and accessible text version on NHS England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We are working with the National\u00a0<\/a>Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH)<\/a> to deliver one of four key interventions that aims to improve the culture of care<\/a> on in-patient, learning disability and autism wards for patients and staff.<\/p>\n We are working alongside experts in neurodiversity, learning disability, equality, trauma, and quality improvement to support these wards to provide safe, equitable, trauma- and autism-informed care.<\/p>\n Our work will support mental health organisations to implement a personalised approach to suicide risk assessment. Initially, we will be working closely with ten organisations providing expert advice to support them to change their approach to assessing risk. This support will then be extended nationally.<\/p>\n We will bring together online resources related to a personalised approach to suicide risk assessment and management. These resources are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This work is funded by NHS England and forms part of their Mental\u00a0Health, Learning Disability and Autism Inpatient Quality Transformation Programme.<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Pilot real-time data collection of probable suicide deaths” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n Our initial focus is on patients in closest contact with mental health services, specifically in-patients and post-discharge patients who died within 14 days of discharge.<\/p>\n Our overarching aim is to collect information that we need to know early to support suicide prevention efforts. This includes emerging novel methods, suicide related internet use, possible clusters, problems in care which may be systemic and particular problems that patients face.<\/p>\n We are taking a staged approach to establishing this real-time data collection:<\/p>\n We are asking clinicians for early notification of any suspected suicide death of an in-patient or a patient recently (within 14 days) discharged from in-patient care, where the death occurred from 1 January 2024, without waiting for the inquest or for a request from us. This is via our anonymous online questionnaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n Further information can be found in our information sheet<\/a> and FAQs<\/a>.\u00a0We have also produced an infographic\u00a0for onward sharing<\/a>. This study began in August 2023 and we will continue to report findings in our annual report.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Suicide in NHS staff” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n Some health service staff may be at an increased risk of suicide, and staff wellbeing is a priority in the context of sustained and growing pressures.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We have taken a stepped approach to establishing this data collection:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Further information and resources can be found on our <\/span>NHS Staff Suicide data collection <\/span><\/a>webpage<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0This data collection will run from May 2023 to April 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Clinician bereavement study” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ link_option_url=”https:\/\/www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk\/jfe\/form\/SV_dd4BSTpCa66FqS2″]<\/p>\n Each death can have a profound effect. In this study, conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Suicide Research at Oxford University and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, we will:<\/p>\n We will undertake this by asking clinicians who have experienced the death of a patient by suicide to complete a questionnaire\u00a0focusing specifically on the impact the patient\u2019s death had on them.<\/p>\n Data collection for this study closed on 3 September 2025.<\/p>\n The study has been funded by the\u00a0Medical Protection Society (MPS) Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code admin_label=”Code: Spacing only” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_code][et_pb_button _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_button][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text: Current collaborations and associated projects title and intro” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_accordion admin_label=”Accordion: Current collaborations and associated projects ” _builder_version=”3.17.6″][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Suicide in former service personnel” open=”on” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n This study, with the Ministry of Defence, aimed to investigate suicide amongst those who have left the UK Armed Forces, and to make comparisons with serving personnel and the general population. The study updated our previous work<\/a> from 2009. Since this study was carried out there has been no systematic investigation of suicide in UK veterans.<\/p>\n The purpose of the study was to\u00a0understand the rate, timing and risk factors for suicide for those who have left the UK Armed Forces between 1996 and 2018. The study included the linkage of data from the Ministry of Defence on all suicide deaths in serving personnel and all personnel discharged from Armed Forces with NCISH data on general population and mental health patient suicides. It also included a review of coroner\u2019s records and inquest hearings for a sample of veteran suicide deaths, to provide more detail of the factors related to suicide (particularly early and recent vulnerabilities, in-service exposures, difficulties after discharge, living circumstances, and contact with a variety of health and third sector providers) in this population.<\/p>\n The study was funded jointly by the Ministry of Defence and NHS England. Further information on the study design and purpose can be found in our study summary<\/a> and information sheet<\/a>, and is also available on the GOV.UK website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Reducing suicides: Quality improvement and patient safety” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n We worked with experts in Quality Improvement at the National\u00a0<\/a>Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH)<\/a> to support Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) to strengthen their local suicide prevention quality improvement plans. This was part of a nationally recognised suicide reduction priority across Department of Health, NHS England, and an overall Mental Health Five Year Forward View<\/a> recommendation to reduce the suicide rate by 10% by 2020\/21.<\/p>\n Together with NCCMH, we worked with Quality Improvement teams in each STP to:<\/p>\n Read more about this collaboration on NCCMH’s Suicide Prevention National Transformation Programme webpage<\/a>. The study was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP).<\/p>\n In May 2019, NCISH were winners of a 2019 Making a Difference award for social responsibility.<\/p>\n A diverse range of multifaceted, novel projects have been established throughout this programme. See some examples of innovative work being carried out by local areas in the programme.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Support for improving community-based care for self-harm” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]<\/p>\n We were commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement to support areas in England to improve community-based services and care for people who self-harm. Together with experts from the Manchester Self-Harm Project (MaSH)<\/a> and NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (PSTRC)<\/a>, we supported participating areas by providing:<\/p>\n This was part of a national programme funded by NHS England and NHS Improvement linked to establishing new and integrated models of primary and community mental health care across England<\/a>. Read more about this collaboration here<\/a>. This work was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and funded by NHS England and NHS Improvement.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Suicide Information Database Cymru (SID-Cymru) and NCISH database linkage study” open=”off” _builder_version=”3.9″ title_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” title_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em” body_text_shadow_horizontal_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_vertical_length=”0em” body_text_shadow_blur_strength=”0em”]This collaboration between the NCISH and SID-Cymru (hosted with the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Database<\/a>) will link routinely collected data about all individuals in Wales who died by suicide between 2001 and 2015 with clinical data collected by the NCISH on patients in contact with mental health services within 12 months of their death. We extended our national suicide prevention support role to include responding to local area’s concerns specific to the pandemic. 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The transition from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS) can be a high-risk period for patients. To better understand this risk, we are conducting a mixed methods study of suicide during the transition of care from child and adolescent to adult mental health services. In this study, we will:<\/p>\n\n
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Implementing a personalised approach to risk<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nNational real-time data collection of suspected suicide deaths under mental health care<\/h3>\n
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We have established a national real-time data collection of suspected suicide deaths\u00a0by people under the recent care of mental health services in England.<\/p>\n\n
Suicide in NHS staff: a national data collection to inform prevention<\/h3>\n
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We have been commissioned by NHS England to establish a prospective data collection about suicide by NHS staff, with the aim of preventing future deaths.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Clinician bereavement study<\/h3>\n
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Mental health professionals can expect to experience the death of a patient by suicide at least once but as many as four times in their professional career.<\/p>\n\n
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Read our March 2020 update on the national suicide prevention programme in this blog<\/a>, by NCISH researchers Nicola Richards and Cathryn Rodway.<\/p>\nRead a blog on our work with NCCMH to help local areas improve suicide prevention plans<\/a>, by the NCISH project manager, Dr Pauline Turnbull.<\/p>\n![\"Download](\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/ncish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/06\/Icon__Download_blue.jpg\"){kind=icon}
Download a summary of how we help local areas improve suicide prevention plans.<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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